Package structure



April 11, 1944. A. a. DRULLARD PACKAGE STRUCTURE 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Feb. 5, 1940 VENTOR 7 BY AHgDEDRl/LMRD.

ATTORNEY April 1 1, 1944. A. B. DRULLARD 2,346,564

PACKAGE STRUCTURE Fild .Feb. 5, 1940 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR w ALFZJPJSILLARD. S W12 I ATTORNEY April 11, 1944. A. B. DRULLARD PACKAGE STRUCTURE Filed Feb. 5, 194

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INVENTOR fill-725D B. D/PULLAED ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 11,

UNITED STATES PATENT v OFFICE I miti ates I j I AliredEDrullaitNewYorhlEY. Application February 5, 1940, Serial No. 817,321 7 9Claims. (cues-s) I This application is a continuation-impart of application Serial No. 266,608, illed April 7, 1939.

This invention relates to package structures and it has among its objects a package structure in which the empty ends 01' a plurality of baglike containers enclosing the substance, such as powders, granules, tablets and the like, which is to be dispensed,.are ireely suspended, by their empty ends only, in one or more rows within a recess of a protective sheet structure which is shaped to form a cover which encloses and protects all the individual containers, while enabling ready and convenient dispensing of the contents of each container unit by merely tearing on! its empty end along the edge of the sheet portions forming the recess.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will be best understood irom the following description of exemplincations thereof, reference being had 'to the accompanying drawings wherein Fig. 1 is a perspective view illustrating one form of a package structure oi the invention:

Fig. 2 loan end or sectional view along line 2--2ofFig.3;

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the package structure of Fig. 1 with parts of the front cover broken away;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view oi one of the dispensing containers of Fig. 1 and its junction to the mounting strip:

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 2 illustrating a different form or such package structure;

Figs. 6 and 7 are views similar to Figs. 2 and 3 illustrating another form 0! such package structure:

Fig. 8 is a cross-sectional view along line 2-8 01' Fig. '1;

Figs. 9 and 10 are views similar to Figs. 2 and I 3 illustrating a still other form of the inven-- tion;

Fig. 11 is a view similar to Fig. 2 illustrating a further form oi the invention;

I 'ig. 12 is across-sectional view along line Figs. 13 and 14 are views similar to Fig. 2

illustrating other forms of the invention;

Fig. 15 is an elevational view of another form oi the invention:

Figs. 16 and 17 illustrate two ways of making container assemblies for a package structure oi.

sheet strip mounting suitable for making package structures of the invention:

Fig. 21 is a view similar to Fig. 2 of a further form of the invention;

, Figs. 22, 23 and 24 illustrate three stages inthe iormatlon 'ot container assembly units for a form otpackage structure of the invention such as shown in Fig. 21;

Fig. 25 is a cross-sectional view across a container unit of Fig. 24:

Figs. 26 and 2'7 are views similar to Figs. 22 and '23 illustrating another way oi making container assembly units for a package structure of the invention; I

Figs. 28 and 29 trating diilerent ways of forming container units or package structures or the type shown in Figs. 26 and 27: and

Fig. 30 is a view similar to Fig. 2 illustrating another form of the invention.

A great variety oi. package structures have been used for many years past for dispensing powder, granular, pill, tablet and similar products that are sold to the public for household, medical'and otheruses.

Many products that are sold in powder, granular, pill, tablet and similar forms and are designed for use in small quantities only, are being packed in tins, boxes or like containers. Since the contents of such containers are easily spilled and the containers are often broken, a large part oi the product is wasted. Although some of these are protected by a tough lining, they are subject to contamination and deterioration, by

dampness, for instance, incident to repeate opening oi-such containers.

In connection withmany oi such products, it has been long realized that it would be of great advantage ii. they could be packed and shipped in a package structure that would make possible dispensing of the product in exact measured fractional amounts required for each use, and enable convenient dispensation 0! each fractional amount while keeping the contents oi the other units sealed and protected until required for use.

r The invention solves the problem of packaging and dispensing such products, in any desired measured quantities; by the provision of a novel multi-container sanitary-dispensing package structure, which is suggestive of a matchbook, and comprises a protective sheet enclosure having a backing sheet and a cover sheet iolded thereover and holding protected in the interior, a row 0! baglike, tearable product conare cross-sectionalv iews illusstrips.

tainers r packets, which are joined to the protective sheet enclosure solely by their empty ends, in such manner that the entire length of taining sheet strip may be of a material similar to the cover, as when formed by. the foldingof an integral portion of the backing sheet, or of other suitable and convenient materials when not so formed. 1

The retaining sheet strip extends over a por-- tion of said backing sheet to form along the interior surface of said backing sheet an elongated recess bounded by an edge of said strip.

An additional sheet strip and a row of a plurality of tearable baglike containers extending from said additional strip are fastened behind the edge of said overlying retaining sheet strip within the recess formed on saidbacking sheet. The additional sheet strip may be inserted in the recess adjacent to the empty container ends to give additional rigidity and padding to the structure. It may be formed by an extension of the retaining sheet strip. It may be a separate element to which the containers are attached, or it may be integral with the containers.

. The individual containers hold sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractional amounts of a dispensable substance. The fastened end portion of each container constitutes the sole junction of the container to the backing'sheet and to the other containers fastened Thus, substantially the to said backing sheet. entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet so that each may be removed individually by merely tearing it 011 across the edge of one of said sheet Tearing oil the tainer, while the thumb asa backing support for the cutting edge makes available .to the user that single dose in an opened bag.

Tearable material, such as paper, wax paper, glassine, metallic foils, and for making dispensing containers. Tough sheet materials, such as cellulosic' or rubber hydrochloride sheets may also be used, with a metallic or other strong cutting edge provided along the edge of the retaining recess in which the empty ends of such containers are fastened, to facilitate the tearing off of the empty binding ends of the containers.

Alternatively, the empty end portions of the containers may be made of celluloslc material, or materials having similar properties, and may be weakened to permit easier tearing and the elimination of stronger cutting edges than those provided by a single overlying sheet strip of cardboard, or the like. This weakening operation, as by heat or other means, may form a step in the process of the formation of the baglike dispensing containers, or of the sealing operations after they have been filled, or take place at the time they are bound within the recess,

empty end of the con-' of the other hand acts the like are suitable Elongated envelope-type or bag-type containers, suitable for dispensing containers, have long been known and are in wide daily use. Mass production methods and machines are generally available for inexpensively making, imprinting, filling and sealing such containers, and for'automatically handling them through subsequent steps. Thisis also true as to the imprinting, cutting, folding and other operations in the formation of the protective cover wraps, and the binding operations incidental to completing the finished package structure.

Thus, standard packaging machines and equipment, with but minor changes and adjustments, may be economically employed to produce sanitary dispensing packagesof the invention. And

special machines may be easily designed to produce container assemblies from a continuous sheet roll, the baglike individual dispensing units integrally extending from a common sheet strip, as a fringe, and they may also be filled and sealed automatically, and cut oil into convenient lengths or. sections, either before or after being fed by their integral sheet strip into the binding recess on the cover.

Altematively, to facilitate handling, the individually made, filled and sealed dispensing containers may be fed to and assembled laterally upon a sheet strip of suitable an'dconvenient material, such as paper, paper-board, or the like, theirempty ends secured as by spotting, cementing, fusing-or crimping with or without heat, so that they are attached to and extend from it as a fringe. Depending upon the substance being packaged, the filled containers may first be subjected to an agitating or shaking action to settle the contents and leave one end empty for binding, unless the sealing section is deep enough to keep suflicient area flat and empty for such operations.

Figs. 1 to 3 illustrate a package structure exemplifying one form of the invention. It comprises an enclosure sheet, of hard calendered cardboard, for instance, folded into a book-like cover structure composed of a backing sheet 40 having on one side a recess 4! formed by an integral overlapping sheet portion 42, and on the other side a cover flap 43, the free edge of which is inserted and held behind the edge 44 of the recess strip 42 when the package structure is closed, in the way shown in Fig. 3. A plurality of elongated baglike containers 45,-each previously filled, through their open upper ends, with the substance which is to be dispensed, are shown assembled adjacent to each other in two rows on opposite sides of a relatively stiff binding or mounting strip 46, with their upper empty ends clamped and sealed within the recess 4| of the cover sheet.

In the form shown in Figs. 1 to 3, the container bags are of the satchel or square-end gusset type. As illustrated in Fig. 4, they may be assembled by fastening their upper empty ends on the opposite sides of a mounting strip 46 which may have an edge 41 projecting slightly beyond the edge 44 of the recess strip 42 of the cover structure. The bags may be of wax paper, for instance, and the open upper empty ends of two rows of such bags may be sealed and fastened to the opposite sides'of the mounting strip 46 by heat and pressure in a continuous production process. Both side walls of each bag may be either of equal height, or the side facing the mounting strip 46 may be somewhat shorter than the outer side so that only the junction of the overlapping side either by a cenientitious used for securing the clamping lying the of the invention. It comprises a cover structure wall portions of the bag to the mounting strip serves as a seal for the contents of the bag.

The clamping jimction between the end'portions of'the'. empty ends of the rows of containerbags4li and the wall portions of the recess 4|,

within which they are clamped, may be effected of anchors, such as staples 49, extending through, and clamped over, the opposite sides of the cover sheet bordering the recess or stitching across the entire length may be used. Obviously, a eementitious material as well as staples may be junction between the end portions of the empty ends of the'bags with the side walls of the recess 4|.

The edge 44 of the integral recess strip 42 overfront row of bags 45 and the edge 41 of the mounting strip overlying the next row of bags 4! are made of sufficient stillness so as to serve as cutting edges across which each bag may be torn ofi by pulling it outwardly with one hand while the thumb of the otherhand backs -u'p and supports the recess strip 42.

In the package structure of the type described above, each bag hangs freely by its empty end which forms its sole junction to the other bags and to the cover structure. A person desiring .to use the contents of an individual container does not have to fumble in separating an individual container from the package structure nor disturb its other containers.

when removing'an individual container from the package structure, the user does not have to fumblein separating that container from the other containers because each container is joined to the cover structure only by its empty end and may be readily torn therefrom by a simple pull on the elongated container freely hanging along the cutting edge 44 of the integral recess, without affecting the other containers and their sealed contents. The contents of the container unit' cannot be spilled because the character of the package structure forces the user to tear oi! the container with the torn-off end facing'upwardly.

Alternatively by arranging two or more rows of containers 45 in the recess 4| of the backing sheet, in the way shown in Figs. 1 to 3, and making the recess strip 42 and binding strips 4!,

material, or by means i 40-42-43, similar to that of Figs. 1 to 3. Two rows of previously filled containers 50, of the envelope or fiatbag' type. as shown inFigs. l8 and 19, respectively, have their upper empty ends clamped within the recess 4| as in the structure of Figs. '1 to 3 so that the cover tongue 53 may be inserted behind the edge of the slit 54 formed in therecess strip 42. The bags 50 are of the envelope type, as shown in Fig. 18, and each row of bags may be formed in a continuous operation by sealing the overlapping edges of the upper open end of each filled bag to an overlying mounting strip il. The mounting strip 5| may be made-of a lamination, which is formed of a stiller material than cardboard, for instance, thin sheet metal having a slightly projecting edge 52 designed to serve as a cutting edge across which the individual bags may be torn off. The front row of the bag assembly is placed slightly higher than the rear" row so that after tearing oil the bags of the first row the cutting edge 52 overlying the second row of bags is exposed and acts as an effective cutting edge for those in that recess.

Alternatively, the mounting strip ii on which the rows of bags 50 are assembled prior to forming the package structure shown in Fig. 5, may

be made of a single thin sheet strip of material,

, when using containers of sheet material having separating the rows of bags,- of suflicient stiffness,

the edge of each strip overlying each row of bags serves as a cutting edge for the row of bags lying in the recess behind it. By arranging the cutting edges sothat the cuttingedge overlying each row great tearing strength, such as cellulose, .or rubber hydrochloride film.

In the form of the package structure shown in Fig. 5, a disengageable closure junction between the overlying strip 42 of the backing sheet which forms the recess 4| so as to be retained therein in the closed condition of the package structure in a way similar to the package structure of Figs. 6 and '7 described hereinafter.

This arrangement of the detachable closure junction between the cover flap and the backing of bags projects slightly beyond the cutting edge a of the next outer row of bags, each cutting edge has; equal effectiveness in facilitating the tearing oil of the individual containers from the package structure.

The package structure of the invention as illustrated in-Figs. 1 to 3 resembles thus in its arrangement the popular matchbook structures, the

individual baglike containers being readily torn off across'the overlying sheet cover portion without spilling the contentsof the container and without impairing or in any way affecting the purity and the quality of the contents of the other containers of the package structure. The package structure of the invention has thus all the advantages inherent in structures of the matchbook type, and atthe same time overcomes the difficulties heretofore encountered in dispensing in measured quantities powdered, granular, tablet,"

and like products requiring protection against spilling, contamination, deterioration, or the like. In Fig. 5, is shown another package structure sheet makes it possible to place the clamping staples 49 near the free edgesof the mountingstrips 5| and the outer recesslstrip 42, thereby increasing their stiffness and rendering their 'free edges more effective ascutting edges for tearing oil the individual container bags from the package structure. a x

.In Fig. 6 is shown another package structure exemplifying the invention. It comprises a cover sheet folded into a book-shaped structure, as in Y Figs. 1 to 3, composed of a backing sheet 40 having on one side a recess 4| formed by doubly folded sheet portions 55, 56 arranged so that the edge 5! joining the overlying retaining sheet strip 55 and the additional sheet strip 56 forms a reinforced stiff cutting edge. The empty ends of the individual bags 50 may be fastened either within the integral recess formed by the doubly folded .edge portion 56 and the backing sheet 40, as in Figs. 1 to 3, or as shown in Fig. 6, the empty ends of the bags may be fastened in the recess between the two folded-over sheet portions 55,

. 56' forming the cutting 'edge portion 51. The

several layers of thelsupportin g sheet forming the inner layer of the cover sheet 43 and the backing sheet 40 is j bags, particularly I ing strips 46 the folded structure in which the .empty ends of the bags are clamped may be joined to each other either by cementitious material or by a crimping operation, or by continuous stitching. Alternatively, they may be clamped by staples 49 as in Figs. 1 to 3.

By placing the clamping staples 49 near the edge of the fold forming the cutting edge 51, its stiffness is increased and it is rendered much more effective as a cutting edge for bag materials having even a relatively large tearing resistance.

The edge of the cover sheet .which .overlaps the empty ends of the bags 50 may serve as a mounting or binding strip for assembling the individual bags 50 in a continuous production process before the enclosure sheet 40-43-55-56 is folded into its final shape. When the edge of the enclosure sheet is used for mounting the individual bags in their proper'grouping, the individual package structures, each enclosing a plurality of dispensing container units 50, may be formed either by cutting the continuous enclosure sheet with the containers fastened thereto into multiple container sections before the folding operation or after the completion of the folding operation. Y

As shown in Figs. 7 and 8 the individual bags of each row of bags may be assembled in overlapped relation.

As in the package structure of Fig. 5, the cover flap 43 is shown provided with a flat tongue 53 for insertion into a slit 54 of the facing foldedover portion of the backing sheet 40 so as to retain the cover 43 in the closed position in which it forms with the backing sheet 40 a protective enclosure for the containers and their contents which are suspended in the interior space of the enclosure.

In the form of the package structure shown in Fig. 5, two rows of envelope-type bags 50 have their empty ends clamped within a recess 4| of an enclosure structure 40-42-43, similar to that of Figs. 1 to 3. In making of the type shown in Fig. may be independently assembled on a mounting strip 46 by a spotting or crimping operation,

a package structure acaasca into multiple container package structures of the type shown in Fig. 9 by folding and clamping the mounting strip 46 with the containers fastened thereon, or, alternatively, an assembly such as shown in Fig. 16 with its folded sheet strip 12, within a cover structure -42-43, as in the structure of Figs. 11:0 3. In the form shown in Fig. 9, .the bags of the front recess row are staggered relatively to the bags of the rear recess row so as to keep down the overall thickness of the several rows of bags and the thickness of the package structure.

In Fig. 11 is shown a package structure of the invention in which each package is formed of powder-fold containers of the type shown in Fig. 20. As shown in Fig. 20, each such powderfold type container is formed by first folding a sheet strip along its middle line around the substance and then folding the overlapping edges of the folded sheet into a double fold. Each sofolded formation is then folded at its center as indicated at 66. Either one or the both halves of such fold may be usedto seal, without adhesive, the contents which are to be dispensed. In utilizing such fold-type containers for making a package structure of the type shown in Fig.

- the filled folds seen in Fig. 12 may have their 5, each row of bags and two or more superposed rows of bags, each formed of a length of mounting strip 46 and a row of dispensing containers joined thereto, may be then fastened within the integral recess 4| in a continuous process operation.

In order to facilitate the tearing oif of the if the bags are of a material having great tear resistance, metallic strips 52 may be placed back'of the interior faces of the recess or mounting strips so as to provide sharp cutting edges overlying each row of bags and enable easy tearing oil of each individual bag, the cutting edge strip 52 for the back recess row of bags being arranged to project slightly beyond the cutting edge overlying the outer recess row of bags, so as to assure that each container of each row of bags may beeasily torn off across its overlying cutting edge.

Such metallic cutting edge strips 52 may be united, as by cementing, to the overlying mounting strips, or the metallic cutting edge strips 52.

may be used as the mounting or binding strips for assembling the bags without resort to mountof paper cardboard or the like.

In the form shown in Figs. 9 and 10, two rows of bags 50 have their upper empty end portions fastened, as in Figs. 18 and 19, to the outer edge portion of the relatively stiif binding strip 46,

and the so-assembled structure is then formed way illustrated in Fig. 16. As

' integral recess 4| edge of the recess strip 44 serves ends joined to the outer edge of a binding strip 67, and the two overlapping ends of each fold are held sealed by the clamping junction between the mounting strip 46 and the underlying portion of the cover sheet 40. Alternatively, the overlapping-ends of a row of such folds may be sealed within a folded over mounting strip, in the way indicated at 12 in Fig. 14, before being mounted on the backing sheet.

One or more rows of such powder-fold containers may be clamped to the backing sheet 40 as by cementing or by staples 49. As shown in Fig. 11, the mounting and cover strip 46 forms withthe backing sheet 40 the recess within which the empty ends of the folds 65 are fastened. As

in the previously described package structures,

may be readily torn off across the cutting edge.

In Fig, 13 is shown a package structure of the invention formed with two rows of containers mounted on a common mounting strip in the shown in Fig. 16,

rows of filled containers 45 have their empty ends sealed and fastened, as by spotting, cementing or crimping, to the opposite edge portions of a mounting strip 12 of as strong paper. The mounting strip 12 with the two rows of containers 45 is then folded along its center line 13 and fastened within the of a cover structure 40-43 in Figs. 1 to 3. The free as a. cutting edge for the outer row of containers 45 and a separate cutting edge may be provided for the back row of containers 45 by clamping a bindof the type shown ing strip 14 of relatively stiif material, such as cardboard, between the overlapping sides of the suitable material, such Q 1 empty ends of the be mounted on the way shown in Fig. 14 so, that I 2,846,564 .tive cutting edge for the back recess row of container bags.

Alternatively, two rows of containers 45 may a common binding strip 12 of strong material, such as cardboard, and the strip 12 may be folded along a bend line 13, in

backing sheet 40 of a folded book-likeprotective sheet structure, having on its oppositesides a cover 43 and an overlapping strip 42 completing an enclosure around the rows of containers 45 suspended on the backing sheet. A tongue 53 extending from the cover. sheet 43 shaped to fit andbe retained within a slot 54 of the overlappin .strip 42 of the backing sheet forms a disengageable junction for holding the cover 43 in the closed position in a way analogous to the package structures of Figs. and 6.- e

' As in the package structure of Fig. 13, a strip 14 of stiff material may beiinterposed between the two rows of bags of Fig; 14 so asto provide a recess for each row of bags, the edge of the strip 14 bounding the inner recess serving as a cutting edge for the rear row of bags, -and the portion of the mounting strip 12 overlying the outer recess in which the outer row of bags is held, serving as a cutting edge therefor.

In Fig. 15 is shown another form of package structure of the invention in which an enclosure sheet is folded along a center line 11 tov form the facing I forms the junction strip 83 may be cut open to permit filling the individual containers through their open top ends before the junction portion 83 is sealedand mounted within the folded booklike enclosure structure.

'A plurality of individual bags or containers can be assembled on a common binding strip and mounted within a common holder, and each bag or container can be detached from the holder as theneed arises simply by tearing it in proximity of the retaining lip I22. spilling of the contents of the bag detached can be easily prevented by holding the package so that" the torn-off end of the bag faces upwardly.

' In Figs. 22 to 25 I illustrate a method of pro ducing from a single blank a row of individual containers .integrallyextending from a. common binding strip for mounting in a folder, such as shown in Fig. 2. -As shown in Fig.22, a paper blank in the form of an' elongated strip I38 is slit at equal longitudinal intervals along lines I39, I40, I, I42, extending from the bottom edge I43 of the strip up to a point, such as I44,

I50, which are joined The folding flaps of each individual package f or container'are obtained by severing said. flaps two backing sheets. 18 which when folded form two facing leaves of a book-like cover structure.

The opposite edges of the two facing leaves 18 have extensions 13 overlapping the adjacent faces of the two leaves 18-to form therewith two recesses 4| in which are fastened the empty ends of-rows of freely suspended containers 45, each container being clamped within its recess in a manner similar to those described in connection with any one ofthe Figs. 1 to 13.

In Fig. 17 is shown another way of forming a row of containers for a package structure of the invention. A sheet '80, out of which the containers are to be made, is folded along its center line, in a way'similar to the fold formed by the facing pages 40 and 43. of the enclosure structure of Fig. 11. The overlapping facing portions of the so-folded sheet formation are severed along the lines 8| so as to provide two facing rows of tongue-like freely suspended sheet sections. By making the sheet 80 of a material that fuses under pressure and heat, such as wax paper, fusible cellulosic sheet material, or rubber hydrochloride, the individual sheet sections 82 which are suspended from thecommon'junction strip 83 may be united at the side edges 84 and bottom edges 85 so as to form a row of containers suspended on the common junction strip 83 which may be utilized as a mounting strip in making of such container assembly package structures of the invention.

When a package structure of the made from rows of containers formed'in the way shown in Fig. 17, the individual'containers 82 may befilled, after ,their side edges 84 are sealed, through their open bottom ends 85. Then the open ends of the containers 82 are sealed and bound in the cover structure.

Alternatively, the folded edge of the sheet which and by dotted folding lines I51, I58, correspond- *pansible type at a certain distance from the top edge I45. Said slits I33.to i42 separate the strip into five individual package blanks I46, I41, I48,- I49, by a top binding strip I5I.-

- tainer being defined by folding dotted lines I53, 7

I54, as shown.

The construction illustrated is intended for the production of individual package units of theexformed with lateral gussets and, therefore, dotted folding lines I53, I54 are supplemented by parallel dotted folding" lines I55, I56, corresponding to the bottom of each gusset ing to the other foldof each gusset.

A shown in Fig. 23, the individual blank I46 at the rightds shownafter its side flaps have been folded inwardly along folding lines I53, I54, and outwardly along folding lines I55, I55. At a sub.-

sequent stage shown in connection with the 7 blank immediately at the left, the flaps I59, 158 of the individual package .have been folded inwardly along the folding lines I51, I58, one of the flaps overlapping the other and being secured thereto by means of an adhesive or in any other convenient manner.

In Fig. 25 are shown he-folding lines designated by the same reference characters, the front flap I68 overlapping the front fold I59, and the resulting structure being in the form of a relatively flat expansible tube downwardly extending from thestrip I5I.

The tip end of each tubular structure thus obtained in its fiat or collapsed condition is then turned inwardly and pasted or otherwise secured invention is onto the body of the structure, as shown at IBI,

. forming a closed end of the container. The strip portion I5I is then bent downwardly against the body of the container extending therefrom, forming a closure for the upper-open'end of said containers, the folding of said strip portion being, of course, effected after the filling of the in dividual containers. I

The strip portion I5I of the resulting assem- "bly may then be folded lengthwise upon itself,

along the dotted line I5I', shown in Fig. 23, in-a sheet' and a manner causing the two packages at the right of Fig. 23 to occupy the spaces between the other packages as shown in Fig. 24, said packages I62 being designated in Fig. 23 by reference characters I46, I41, I48, I49 and I50, thus completing a multi-container unit ready for mounting within the recess of a folded enclosure sheet.

In Figs.26 .to 29 I illustrate another method of producing a package The height from top to bottom of the blank used is equivalent to twice the height of the package unit to be obtained therefrom. The blank is slit along spaced parallel vertical lines I61 and along the aligned horizontal lines I68, I69 to provide a series ofsheet sections I-provided with lateral flaps I1I extending between two border strips- I1 2. Alternatively, uncut, to provide Fig. 28.

The flaps I1I of the individual sheet sections I10 are then folded, as shown in the right part of Fig. 26, and the blank with the folded flaps is the portion I69 may be left integral gussets, shown in thenfolded along the center line I14 into theshape shown in Fig. 27. The flaps "I of each sheet-section I10 are then joined, as by an adsubstance, either in: the way shown in or Fig. 29, so as to form a strip formed 'of the two facing end strips I12.

After the containers I10 have been filled the two strip portions I12 can be joined to each other,

. or else, if preferred, the sealing of the containers can take place when the rows of containers I10 assembled on the strip I12 are fastened in position within the holder, in the manner indicated in Fig. 30.

In Fig. 30is showna package structure of the which two-rows of containers I89 ofa cover sheet I08, so that the resulting structurewill include two sets of containers.

. v The rows of containers I9I are held between the backing sheet I 88 and the turned-in edge portions I92 thereof, forming the retaining lip andexte'nding to form the closing flap I93, foldable over the rows of containers I9I.

This arrangement makes it possible to supply pecially in such cases where two different substances should be mixed together at the moment 0, use.

Many othermodifications of suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

rate with the scope of the invention as explained and disclosed in the specification.

I claim:

1. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing cover sheet folded thereover to protect the interior space between said sheets, a relatively narr ow overlying retaining sheetstrip unit from a single blank.

and portions of said containers being fastened behind the edge of said overlying retaining strip within the recess formed on said backing sheet, the fastened. end portions of each container constituting the sole junction of the container to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet and that each of said containers may be removed individually from said protective enclosure by merely tearing it oiT across the edge of one of said sheet strips without requiring disjoining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet.

2. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing sheet and a cover sheet folded thereover to protect the interior space between said sheets, a relatively narrow overlying retaining sheet strip extending over a portion of said backing sheet to form along the interior surface of said backing sheet an elongated recess bounded by an edge of said strip, at least one additional sheet strip and at least one row of a plurality of tearable baglike containers attached to and extending from said additional strip and holding sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractional amounts ofa dispensable substance, said additional-strip and the empty end portions of said containers being fastened behind the edge of said overlying retaining strip within the recess formed on said backing sheet, the fastened end portions of each container constituting the sole junction of the container to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet and that each of said containers may be removed individually from said protective enclosure by merely tearing it off across the edge of 'one of said sheet strips without requiring dis.- joining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet.

3. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing sheet and a cover sheet folded thereover to pro tect the interior relatively narrow extending over a to form along the overlying retaining sheet strip portion of said backing sheet sheet anelongated recess bounded by an edge of said strip,-at least one additional sheet strip and at least one row of a plurality of tearable baglike containers integrally extending from said additional strip and holding sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractional amounts of a dispensable substance, said additional strip and the empty end portions of said containers being I taining strip within the recess formed on said backing sheet, the fastened end portions of each container constituting the sole junction of th container to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet and that each of said containers may be from said protective enclo sure by merely tearing it oi! acrossv the edge of one .of said sheet strips without requiring disjoining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet.

4, Ina multiple-container dispensing package,

a protective sheet enclosurehavinga backing space between said sheets, a

interior surface of said backing sheet and a cover sheet folded thereover to protect the interior space between said sheets, 'a relatively narrow overlying retaining sheet strip extending over a portion of said backing sheet to form along the interior surface of said backing sheet an elongated recess bounded-by an edge of said strip, one additional sheet strip and at least one row of a plurality of tearable baglike containers extending from said additional strip and holding sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractional amounts of a dispensable substance, said additional strip and the empty end portions of said containers being fastened behind portion extending integrally hind the edge of said overlying retaining strip within the recess formed on said backing sheet, said additional sheet strip being formed by a sheet portion extending integrally from said retaining strip, said retaining strip being formed by a sheet sheet, the fastened end portions of each container constituting the sole Junction of the container the edge of said overlying retaining strip within the recess formed on said backing sheet, said re- J-talning strip being formed by a sheet portion extending integrally from said backing sheet, the fastened end portions of each container constituting the sole junction of the container to-the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of -said' backing sheet and that each of said containers may be removed individually from said protective enclosure by, merely tearing it off across the edge of one of said sheet strips without requiring disjoining from the suspended portionsof the other containers fastened to said backing sheet.

5. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing sheet and a cover sheet folded thereover to protect the interior space between said sheets, a relatively narrow overlying retaining sheet strip extending over a portionof said backing sheet to form alongthe' interior surface of said backing sheet an elongated recess bounded by an edge of to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the. entire fllledlength of each container is freely suspended may be removed individually from said protective enclosure by merely tearing it off across-the edge of one of said sheet strips without requiring disjoining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet.

'l. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing 7 sheet and a cover sheet folded thereover to, protect the interior space between said sheets, at least two superposed relatively narrow sheet strips overlying a portion of said backing sheet 01011];

along the interior surface of said backing sheet a plurality of superposed elongated recesses, each I strip having an edge constituting the outer said strip, one additional sheet strip and at least one row of a plurality of tearable baglike containers extending from said additional strip and holding sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractional amounts of a dispensable substance, said additional strip and the empty end portions of said containers being fastened behind the edge of said overlying retainingstrip within the recess formed on said backing sheet, said additional sheet strip being formed by a sheet portion extending integrally from said retaining strip, the fastened'end portions of each container constituting the sole junction of the container to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to'said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet and that each of said containers may be "removed individually from said protective enclosure by merely tearing it off across the edge of oneof said sheet strips without requiring disjoining from the. suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet.

6. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing sheet anda cover sheet folded thereover to protect the interior space between said sheets, a relatively narrow overlying retaining sheet strip extending over a portion of said backing sheetto form along the interior surface of said backin in expanded amounts of -a dispensable substance, the fastened boundary for'the recess formed by the strip, eachof said recesses having fastened therein behind the edge of the overlying strip the empty ends of at least one row of a plurality of laterally spaced tearable baglike containers holding sealed portions of their interior fractional end portions of each container constituting the only junction of the container to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet and that each of sadl containers may be removed individually from said protective sheet enclosure by merely tearing.

it ofl across the free edge portion of one of said sheet strips without requiring disjoining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet.

8. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing sheet'and a cover sheet folded thereover to'protect the interior space between said sheets, at

least two superposed relatively narrow sheet strips overlying a portion of said backing sheet to form along the interior surface of said backing sheet a plurality of superposed elongated rccesses each strip havingan edge constituting the outer boundary for the recess formed by'the strip,

, each of said recesses having fastened therein besheet an; elongated recess bounded by an edge of said strip, one addition'al sheet strip and at least portions of said containers being fastened behind the edge of the overlying strip the empty ends of at least one row of a plurality of laterally" spaced tearable baglike containers holding sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractionalamounts of a dispensable substance, the fastened end portions of each container constituting the only junction of the container to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet and that eachof said containers may be removed individually from said protective sheet enclosure by merely tearing it off across'the free edge portionof the next adjacent sheet strip without requlringdlsjoining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet, saidcover from said backing in front of said backing sheet and that each of said containers holding it in closed position in front of said backing sheet.

9. In a multiple-container dispensing package, a protective sheet enclosure having a backing sheet and a cover sheet folded thereover to protect the-interior space between said sheets, at least two superposed relatively narrow sheet strips overlying a portion of said backing sheet to form along the interior surface of said backing sheet a plurality of superposed elongated recesses, each strip having an edge constituting the outer boundary for the recess formed by the strip, each of said recesses having fastened therein behind the edge of the overlying strip the empty ends of at least one row of a plurality of laterally's'paced tearable baglike containers holding sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractional amounts of a dispensable substance, the fastened end portions the only junction of the container to the backing sheet'and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said'backing sheetand that each of said containers may be removed individually from said protective sheet enclosure by merely tearing it 05 across the free edge portion of the next adjacent overlying sheet strip without requiring disjoining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet, said strips having sufllcient stillness for carrying said containers prior to fastening on said backing sheet and their e'dgeshaving suflicient stiffness to serve as an eflective cutting edge for enabling the tearing ofi of the individual containers across said edge.

10. In a multiple-container dispensing packof each container constitutingage, a protective sheet enclosure having a back.-

ing sheet and a cover sheet foldedthereover to protect the interior space between said sheets, at least two superposedrelatively narrow sheet strips overlying a portion of said backing sheet to form along the interior surface of said backing sheet a plurality of superposed elongated recesses, each strip having an edge constituting the outer boundary for the recess formed by the strip, each of said recesses having fastened therein bebind the edge of the overlying strip the empty ends of at least one row of a plurality of. laterally spaced tearable baglike containers holding sealed in expanded portions of their interior fractional amounts of a dispensable substance, the fastened end portions of each container constituting the only junction of the container to the backing sheet and to the other containers fastened to said backing sheet so that substantially the entire filled length of each container is freely suspended in front of said backing sheet and that each of said containers may be removed individually from said protectivesheet enclosure by merely tearing it olf across the free edge portion: of the next adjacent overlying sheet strip without requiring 'disjoining from the suspended portions of the other containers fastened to said backing sheet, said strips having suflicient stiif: ness for carrying said containers prior to fastening on said backing sheet and their edges having sumcient stifi'ness to serve as an efiective cutting edge ior enabling the tearing ofi ofthe individual containers across said edge, said cover sheet having adisengageable junction portion for holding it in closed backing sheet.

' ALFRED B. DRULLARD.

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